#jerrytalk

in elementary school we had these handwriting packets we'd work on; just normal letters up until 3rd grade or so at which point we had to learn cursive; we had to write the final copies of our stories/essays in cursive (even if we were going to type it up, they still wanted a handwritten copy) this obviously caused some (a lot of) people to become sick of it, but I was a pretentious child who stuck with it because it was more Sophisticated (but also because the hand motions felt much more natural) in middle sch im tired so basically i reluctantly adopted (pretty sloppy imo) printed handwriting for the benefit of the layman and it's generally fine for leaving short notes and whatnot but for long bouts of writing I'd tend to start out with printing then transition into cursive as my hand got tired I tend to press down on writing utensils aggressively, so it was also the difference between TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP for each individual letter vs TAP swish swishety swish bop bap at a lecture it's the difference between having legible but incomplete notes vs having everything written with dubiously clear lettering that you can nevertheless at least guess at or I can type which is a lot easier why am I talking about this good night